i have hp pavillion g6 running manjaro, the keyboard looks like this, i broke both shift, the left ctrl and the caps lock... hmm while trying to clean it...
i don't really care about ctrl, the other ...

I have a Kinesis Advantage keyboard and I'm trying to make it so that my right and left Alt keys do the same thing. Currently the left Alt key works as expected but the right Alt key just allows me to ...

I want to remap caps lock to escape in X11 (i.e. pressing the physical caps lock button will be interpreted as esc by applications and esc's behavior will not change). The solution must survive an X ...

I got new thinkpad and it's missing a ContextMenu key and has PrintScreen key where ContextMenu should have been. I remapped it using xmodmap.
The problem is, the key is missing KeyPress events, only ...

I am trying to map a function key combination to an XF86 key symbol. The key combination is Fn+F1, which I was able to use showkey to get the raw keycode for.
jason@io ~ $ showkey
kb mode was RAW
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HW: Samsung N145 (10" netbook)
OS: Xubuntu 14.10
Problem: Backspace key is not functioning.
Want to make Backspace key behaviour be called by Ctrl+Del key combination.
I guess it should be possible to ...

Is there any possibility to bind multiple chars (e.g. a word or even multiple words with spaces between them) to a single key? I've been able to bind specific letters to keys using xmodmap, but not ...

I've got two pointing devices (touchpad and trackpoint) and the goal is to execute a command when movement (any direction, any distance) is detected on the trackpoint, then wait a configurable amount ...

I swapped both sides of Ctrl and Alt using xmodmap. It is quite convenient to use Ctrl keys in Emacs, Emacs uses Ctrl key a lot.
However, when I start ibus, the xmodmap stops working.
I googled and ...

I put xmodmap -e 'keycode 97 = backslash' into a script that is executed at startup. My hardware is a Japanese keyboard, so it lacks some keys and has some extra ones and I am trying remap some of the ...

I am playing around with xmodmap filename to assign among others, the Euro sign to the number five key on my US keyboard.
I have done some wrong assignments and want to reset them, and I don't want ...

I know this has already been asked so many times, but even after searching, I still can't do it.
I simply want to map R_Shift + WASD to the arrow keys (Linux). I can map Shift + WASD to arrows using ...

I try to bind Shift-Enter to insert a newline without evaluating the current expression in the terminal and in repl modes. Reading through the ArchWiki, I tried setting this in my ~/.Xmodmap file and ...

I can't seem to find a way to use Caps Lock as the compose key properly. Some methods are not portable since they require that you detect the key number using something like xev on every host. Other ...

I have a macbook pro running Ubuntu 13.10 with FluxBox. Unfortunately, the power button is physically above the backspace where I would expect the delete key to be in. In OS X, the PowerKey program ...

On my laptop, I use the Win as a modifier. With the Fn key pressed, the key sends a different keysym and I use that as a Compose key.
keycode 133 = Hyper_L
keycode 134 = Multi_key
add mod4 = Hyper_L
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Gentlemen,
I'm a non-native english speaker and need a second language layout. And I'm a heavy Vim user, and use : much more often than ;. At the moment they are remapped in .vimrc, buth that causes ...